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I’m looking forward to meeting and hearing Clay Shirky at the upcoming FASTforward ‘09 conference, even if it is happening in Las Vegas. I’ll be attending in my role as one of the contributors to the the FASTforward blog. I’m being lazy and simply passing along the notice posted by Hylton Jolliffe there. [...]
Tagged FASTforwardI’m presenting today to the Technology Leaders Association meeting in Chicago on the topic of “Technology for Us.” I’ve uploaded my slides to Slideshare.
Technology for Us – Tech Leaders Association
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I’ve also tagged a number of links at delicious; both of sites we may check out [...]
The Contribution Revolution: Letting Volunteers Build Your Business – An excellent executive introduction to the business implications of social media and user generated content by Scott Cook, CEO of Intuit. Nothing terribly new here if you’ve been paying attention to the social media environment at all. On the other hand it summarizes and packages the [...]
Earlier this year, I reviewed Your Inner CEO, by Allan Cox. In the course of that, I’ve actually had the pleasure of meeting Allan and getting to know him. I think it was Ross Mayfield of SocialText who introduced us. Allan is an existence proof that nice guys can be very successful.
One of the things [...]
Once again Lee and Sachi LeFever have produced one of their excellent video introductions to new web technology. This time their topic is twitter. By the way, if you want to follow my updates on twitter, I’m @jmcgee.
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This 2.5 minute video is a result of feedback from [...]
My old friend and former colleague, Vaughan Merlyn, started blogging a few months back, which I discovered by way of other old friend and former colleague Espen Andersen. Vaughan’s blog is IT Organization Circa 2017. It’s an excellent source of insight into the particular challenges that face CIOs trying to make an impact on their [...]
The wonders of Internet serendipity. Scott Hanselman provides an excellent review of ooVoo, the video chat software that Allan Cox will be using next week. (See my earlier post on that tonight.) My ooVoo name is “jimmcgee”
ooVoo – Multi-person Video Chat comes to Windows
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I’m not sure of the relationship between ooVoo and the others, but [...]
If you’ve got 30 minutes next week and are interested in ways you might become more effective, consider this invitation. It’s a chance to participate in an intimate video conference/chat with Allan Cox. Allan is the author of eight books on management and leadership including his most recent effort, Your Inner CEO: Unleash the Executive [...]
Chuck Frey is running another of his periodic survey of mindmapping tools and features. If you’re a mindmapping fan, let Chuck know what you think.
Mind mapping software: What’s hot, what’s not
It’s time to have a little fun. A popular website is HotorNot.com, where visitors get to rate pictures of men and women on [...]
Courtesy of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools blog. Someday, I’d love to get time to go back and learn the physics and math that I once knew.
Motion MountainInspiring physics textbook
This is not your father’s physics textbook. It is the self-published 1,500-page (!!), still-unfinished physics textbook written and designed by your polymath genius uncle who dwells [...]
